besetting

英 [bɪˈsetɪŋ]

美 [bɪˈsetɪŋ]

v.  困扰; 威胁
beset的现在分词

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柯林斯词典

The form beset is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle. beset的过去式和过去分词与原形相同。


• VERB 困扰；烦扰；使苦恼
  If someone or somethingis beset byproblems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
  1. The country is beset by severe economic problems.
     这个国家被严重的经济问题所困扰。
  2. The discussions were beset with difficulties.
     讨论困难重重。
  3. ...the problems now besetting the country.
     现在正困扰该国的问题

双语例句

• More specifically, he repeated a call he first uttered last year-namely that businesses and investors stop funding politicians, unless the politicians pledge to break the poisonous gridlock that is now besetting Washington.
  更确切地说，他是在重复去年首次提出的主张，即呼吁企业和投资者不再资助政客，除非他们承诺打破目前困扰美国政界的极其有害的僵局。
• Integrity has become one of the problems besetting the industry.
  诚信成为困扰房地产业的难题之一。
• The report does not address the serious worries now besetting the European financial sector, which result not from mistakes by bankers so much as blunders by European Union governments in the management of the euro.
  该报告没有解决如今正困扰欧洲金融业的严重担忧。从很大程度上说，这些担忧并非源于银行家的过失，而是源于欧盟（EU）各国政府在欧元管理方面的错误。
• His besetting sin is laziness.
  他所易犯的毛病就是懒惰。
• In view of the problem that sheet pile structures are only suitable for medium and small wharfs, Which has long been besetting the field of marine construction, semi-covered and whole covered sheep pile wharf structures have been researched and developed.
  针对板桩结构型式仅适用于中小码头建设这一长期困扰水运工程界的课题，研究开发了半遮帘式和全遮帘式板桩码头结构型式。
• Linked poverty and unemployment to the social unrest Besetting the city.
  把使城市陷入困境的社会骚乱与贫困失业联系起来。
• I know he couldn't love a Linton; and yet he'd be quite capable of marrying your fortune and expectations! avarice is growing with him a besetting sin.
  我知道他不会爱上一个林惇家的人。但是他也很可能跟你的财产和继承财产的希望结婚的。
• Despite the economic turmoil besetting the region, the Hong Kong SAR government has been able to introduce a range of new tax concessions and lower taxes for individuals and corporations.
  尽管区内饱受金融风暴困扰，香港特区政府仍能实施多项新的税项宽减，以及调低个人和公司的税款。
• A person of vivid imagination often suffers acutely from the imagined perils besetting friends, relatives, or even strangers such as celebrities.
  一个想象生动的人，常常苦于想象来的危险殃及亲友，甚至殃及名人。
• Dick was a fine person, apart from his besetting sin-he drank too much.
  撇开他过分贪杯的恶习而言，迪克是个品行很好的人。